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TIL Venus is the only planet in the solar system that spins backwards.

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nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”